IriOTs lop SSeelers
Rams Whip Colts, Keep Lead
In West; Giants Trip 'Skins
By ED WILKS
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Surprise! The Cleveland Browm re champs of the Eastern
Conference in the National Football League.
It's the sixth Straight rnnforpnp till for fnarh Paul Jtrnavn'a
Browns, who never have finished anywhere but on top since Joining
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sistersi Title
Ducks to Face
Colorado Hoop
Team Tonight
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eu-
roiurn in K,.t.ihMi nin hr. Giants into third place in the East
Monday night, playing the Colorado fT" ' the Sh'CiS C.rdiDfl ,umJ
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Arthur Court. Philadelphia by losing
Both foes are undefeated after , ,s
NFL in 1950.
They wrapped up the 1955 title
with a neat parlay thumping
the once ambitious Pittsburgh
Sleelers 30-7 while the New York
Giants were shutting the door on
the Washington Redskins 17-10.
With only one game remaining;,
the Browns now have an 9-2-1 rec
ord and are beyond reach of the
runnerup Skins (7-4).
Giants New Third
The New York victory, fourth
in a row, jumped the late-starting
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one start. Bill Borcher's Oregons
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downed Drynrt kii u.k " Angeies nams reiainea men-
57-46, and the Buffaloes the next j
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Borcher scouted Colorado in the n....i.ni
Saturday night game at Corvallis. Washington
The probable Oregon
lineup tor me .vionaay game win i Philadelphia
see 6-7 Max Anderson at center, Pituourgh
-S Ray Bell and 6-3 Charley Frank
lin at forwards and 6-1 Jerry Ross
and 6-1 Thil McHugh at guards.
Peterson High Scorer
For the Buffaloes 6-8 George
Hannah will be at center, 6-4 Jim Detroit
Ranglos and 6-3 Jerry Coffman at gnndaT-, urauita
lorwaras ana o-i em reterson ana
Bob Mansfield at guards. Peterson
and Hannah, the Colorado co-captains
were the big scoring guns
in the game at Oregon State, Peter-
inn uith IA -nnintc Hannah tiith
16 i half-game
Later this week, on Friday and'1.'"!01
Saturday, Oregon travels to Provo, ! . , .
Utah for a two-game series with!. Chicago s runnerup Bears stayed
Brigham Young University. BYUj'n .tn ,P,ctu.r bv edgmg the De
downed powerful UCLA last week- Ut Lions 21-20, scoring the win-
end. twice at Provo. The trip to,'""- """"" " 'V u n i
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New York 27. Washington
Philadelphia 27. Chicago Cards 3
Cleveland 30. Pittsburgh 7
Chicago Bears Zl. Detroit 20
Los Angelei 20. Baltimore 14
Green Bay 28, San franctsco 7
i rir Jnha R. WoaH. arrand from left, worn th annual Haarflran Tauraiiunl at Ikm &tltj-fl1t rt..W
Sunday by defeating Pat Miklia, far right. The other two is the picture were also finalists. Bob
Moe, far left, won over Vera MrMulten, second from right, for the first flight title. All Matches in
the months-long tourney ended Sunday.
lead by dropping the
Colls from contention
Provo will be the only one the
Ducks will take during the pre
conference season.
Cards Ohtain
Ellis Kinder
CHICAGO Frantic Frankie
Lane who made about 270 trades
when he was with the Chicago
White Sox finally made a deal for
the St. Louis Cardinals Sunday but
he had to dip into the American
League for pitcher Ellis Kinder,
oldest player in the majors.
Kinder, who will be 42 on July
26, was purchased from the Boston
Red Sox after he had been waived
out of the American league. Al
though no details were announced,
it was understood the price was
no more than the $10,000 waiver
figure.
Lane had sold a couple of play
ers to the minors in his new cap
acity as general manager of the
Cards but this was his first in
volving another big league team.
Many more are sure to follow.
Reliefer Needed
"I don't care if he's 92, as long
as he can pitch, " was Lane's re
action to the age angle. The Cards
were in desperate need' of a relia
ble rubber-armed, righthanded re
liefer. The bullpen failures were
an important factor in their sev
enth place finish last season, their
poorest showing since World War
I.
Kinder was one of the greatest
relief pitchers jn Amrcican League velt and Saturday night they de
history in his salad days. In 1949-1 fcated Lincoln.
he had a 23-6 record as a starter Monday's moe tin ggets under-
and in 1953 he set a league record way at 7:30 a.m. at the Senator
from Ed Brown to Harlan Hill in
the last 5 minutes of play.
Green Bay walloped San Fran
cisco 28-7.
Graham, Groia Star
The' Browns, defending world
champions, picked up yet another
conference crown in the same old
fashion pairing the talents of
veterans Otto Graham and Lou
(The Toe) Grnza.
"Old man' 'Graham, who can
celled his retirement at seasr i
start, ran 4 yards for one TD and
passed for two others one on a
46-yard pass-play to Ray Renfro,
the other on. an lit yard play with
Darrell Brewster.
Groza booted all three conver
sions and chipped in three field
goals from 17, 21 and 42 yards
tut. Cleveland scorod 10 points in
each of the first three periods,
then coasted home. ,
The Steelers, who started the
season with a winning record and
(Cont. page 2, col. 2)
Few Surprises Mark Hoop Openers
Losing Teams
Include OSC
Speech Slated
By Ballantync
Basketball will again hold the
renter of attention at the Salem
Breakfast Club Monday meeting.
The guest speaker will be Dick
Ballantyne, head coach at South
Salem High, who will speak nn
what he expects of his Saxons in
the coming 1955-56 campaign.
Ballantyne's Saxons opened
their season over the weekend
with two victories at Portland.
Friday night they downed Roose-
by working in 69 games and fin
ished with an amazing 1.85 earned
run average.
In the first half of the '55 sea
son, Kinder was in rare form. He
held a 5-1 record at one stage but
lost three games in four days in
(Cont. page 2, col. 5)
Hotel.
Basketball
National Basketball Asia.
Rochesttr 107. Philadelphia 14
Fort Wayne) 111, Boston Ml
Syrarusa 102, Minneapolis M
By SHELDON SAKOWITZ
The Associated Press
A handful of the nation's highly
rated collegiate basketball teams,
anxious to get off on the right foot
in the season's openers found the
early going a bit treacherous. Hut,
for the most part, the first big
Saturday went according to form.
La Salle, a perennial power and
voted the No. 3 team in the nation
in last season's final Associated
Press rankings, bowed in its sec
ond game to unheralded Muhlen
berg 69-58 and Oregon State, No.
10, lost to Colorado 63-53 for its
second setback in two nights.
UCLA, the Southern Division
champion of the Pacific Coast Con
ference a year ago, and Princeton,
the Ivy League kingpin, also were
jolted over the weekend. The Uc-
lans succumbed to Brigham Young
twice in a row, losing 75-58 Friday
and 67-65 Saturday, while Prince
ton went down at the expense of
Hofstra 69-60.
Others Wia Easily
Six other members of last sea
son's top 10 saw action Saturday
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San Francisco, the defending na
tional collegiate champion, turned
back Southern California 58-42 ,ind
Kentucky, No. 2, downed Louisiana
State 62-52.
LaSalle. minus All-America Tom
Gola and Bob M.iples, sidelined
with a broken ankle, trailed Muh
lenberg most of the way. The Ex
plorers, who were runnersup to
'Frisco in the national collegiate
tourney, cut the Mules' lead "to
three points with 8'4 minutes to
play before the winners' pulled
safely ahead.
Oregon State's downfall came at
the foul line with the Webfeet scor
ing only five free throws. Colora
do, which won the Big Seven Con
ference crown and then wound tip
third in the national champion-
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Dan Barter
Defending Champs Again Nab NFL Tide
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We have on hand a couple of news releases from the Oregon
Game Commission which tend to confuse the waterfowl picture.
It is to be understood that we do not wish to ridicule the Game
Commission but with waterfowl it is easy enough
to be in a confused state most of the time. We
know. We've been quite confused all season.
Anyway, the reports read as follows, in part:
(1) Quote:-To answer many inquiries from water
fowl hunters, the Oregon Game Commission said
today (Nov. 30) that there is still an abundance
of waterfowl in most areas of the state. Unquote.
(2) Also dated Nov. 30. Quote:-Waterfowl
hunting in the north Willamette valley was ex
tremely poor over the weekend. It is not ex
pected to improve until th flood waters -recede
and new flights of ducks appear.' Unquote. We
did not quote the reports in their entirety as it
would only cause more confusion amongst the duck hunters. Suf
fice it to say that there is still an abundance of ducks but the
shooting will not improve until new flights of ducks appear. Try
thinking that over for the rest of the week.
With all of the ducks reported as having left Canada on
November t we are at a loss to figure just where any new
flights may appear from. We certainly hope that some more
appear from someplace but Just where Is a good guest.
California Alessetl With Good Hunting
Reports from down south would Indicate that California is
blessed with one of the heaviest waterfowl flights in years. Most
of the other flyways report the same. More ducks than for many
a season. For a few days it was that way in the Willamette valley
and then WHOOF! most of the birds disappeared
It is hard to pin it on the cold snap we had a couple of weeks
ago as right smack in the freeze up we had the best shooting along
the river that we have had all season.
True, there li lots of water now and the birds are not con
centrated in any one spot. However, there should be enough
hunters out over the weekends to keep a lot of birds flying,
yet there is very little doing In the way of flying birds.
Perhaps some more birds can come in yet from eastern Wash
ington but we must remember, that they too had a quick freeze
in that country. It would not surprise us too much if most of the
birds headed straight for Palm Springs.
Weather May Bring Good St eel head
Continued cooler and rainless weather should give the steel
headers a shot in the arm now, and with dropping and clearing
water the big sea-run rainbows should be giving the salmon cluster
boys the fits.
With half a break the coastal streams usually drop and
clear rapidly after the rains. They are short and. the .drop it
swift. Just give us some more of 'this wEather and we'll be
hearing from the hook and gaff boys. The streams should be
well filled with big steeliet now so the stories could be even
bigger and better than normal.
No matter how poor the hunting or fishing may be it could
always be worse. Besides there will be another year with lots of
room for improvement. It couldn't happen again. We hope.
Snared
By Wood
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Dr. John R. Wood, one of Sa
lem's better amateur golfers who
spends hit time off the links in a
dentist' office, captured the Fall
Handicap at the Salem Golf Club
Sunday by defeating Pat Miklia,
5 and 4, in the championship
finals.
Four other flights also finished
Sunday in the annual tournament,
but none were as one-sided as
Wood's victory.
Wood shot even par in his 14
hole defeat of Miklia. The match
was close the first nine holes, which
enoea wun wooa notding a one-up
edge. But the swinging dentist
won the next four holes and halved
the fifth to cinch the title.
Mae Defeats McMullea
In the first flight action, which
played a foursome with the cham
pionship match, Bob Moe defeated
Vera McMullen to take top honors
in the next-to-best round.
0. W. Langdoc won the second
flight when he defeated 'Dr. Ralph
Gordon in the closest match of the
day by a narrow 1 up score. Carl
Wittenberger won the third flight
with a 3 to 2 victory over L. S.
Smith. In the fourth flight, Sam
Tosti downed Dr. Vern Miller, 3
and 1.
Cloa First Nlae
Wood and Miklia played side
by tide through their first nine
holes. Wood lost the first hole with
his only bogie of the day and Miklia
had a 4. Wood took the second
hole with a 4 and nabbed the
third with a par 3. The two halved
the fourth. Both hit par on the fifth
but Wood took the hole because
of his stroke.
They halved the sixth and sev
emu, both with pars, but Miklia
won the eighth with a 2 to Wood's
3. The ninth Was halved with nam
That's when Wood got hot and won
me loth with a par. the llth with
another par. the 12th with a birdie
ana me utb because of a stroke
They halved the 14th and final
hole.
Trophies to Winters
Both the winner and runnor.nn
in the championshio round wilt
receive trophies, as will the win
ners of the other flights. The
trophies will be presented at a ban
quet at a date not yet decided.
Next tournament at the Salem
Golf Club will be a flubher-dub-ber
tourney next Sundayr Persons
wishing to play are asked to sign
up at tho cAib house by Thursday
night, reports Bunny Mason, SGC
pro.
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Both Preps, Colleges Slated '
For Big Week of Hoop Games
While the past weekend may
have been classed by some as a
light one for the start of the basket
ball season, this week will find
both prep and college quints cutt
ing loose full blast in the first
big week of tho campaign'.
On the collegiate side, Monday
night games find Linfield at South
ern Oregon, Pacific U at College of
Puget Sound, Colorado at Oregon
and Washington State at Whitworth.
On Tuesday night Portland U plays
here at Willamette In the home
opener for tho Bearcats, Linfield
is again at Southern Oregon and
Pacific at Pacific Lutheran. Bay
lor' Bean play Oregon StaU at
Corvallis Wednesday night.
On Friday night Willamette to
at College of Puget Sound. Oregon
College at Linfield. Lewis ft Clark
at Seattle Pacific, Oregon at
Brigham Young U. Wyoming it
Oregon State, Baylor at Washing
ton. Utah State at Washington.
State and Montana at Idaho. A
couple of unique doubleheadert is
southern California, involving PCC
members, find both Southern Cal
and UCLA meeting Denver an4
Purdue on Friday and Saturday
(Cont page 2, col 6) .'
Souchuk Winner
In Havana Match
HAVANA on Mike Souchak.
former Duke University football
player from Grossinger, N.Y., Sun
day won the $15,000 Havana Invi
tational Golf Tournament as he
shot the final round In three-under-par
69 for a 72 hole total of 273.
' Souchak, leader since the first
round, picked up first prize of
$2,000 as he finished 15-under-par
for a two stroke lead over to
Oliver of Newark, Del. Oliver,
three strokes back of young Sou
chak at the start of ' Sunday's
round, shot 61 for a total of 275
MatliiaM in Formosa
TAIPEI. Formosa Ufi Bob
Mathias, U.S. Olympic gamcj.de
cathalon champion in 1948 and
1952, arrived from Hong Kong Run
day for a six-day visit to National
ist China.
Portland Has
Skate Victor
Rodney Ba brock and his part
ner, Carol Pollanz, of Portland
won the state chamoionshin in tha
dance of the month contest at
aaiem t Msateland Sunday night
me i-umpeuuon was in me pro
gressive tango and 12 top skaters
irom inrpughout the Me entered.
Second' place went to Kennie
Doney and Donna Grant of Canby
ana the third spot was won by
Keith Doney and Linda Burgess,
biso 01 vanny.
Others who placed were: 4th,
Darrell Rader and Edna Stone
Portland; 5th. Kent Baltrick and
Joanne Schenk. Portland: filh
Paul Chitwood and. Shcrril Chap
man, Roseburg; 7th, Phillip Bell
and Janice Collins. Portland; 8th,
William Rossow and Velda Nelson.
Salem; 9th. John Fletcher and
Murial Armstrong, Gresham; 10th,
Loren Gogdill and Roe Ann Child,
Gresham; llth. Pete Wright and
Barbara Roberts, Salem; 12th,
Tom Laemmle and Gail Laemmle,
Eugene.
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Plans Social Night
A special night meeting of the
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Three films will be shown.
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